Chapter 246: Only Insects Would Like You
"Sorry Hayasaka, today I'll be going out with Sakurai-san, I already promised him."
In front of the hotel, Shinomiya Kaguya told Hayasaka Ai about today's schedule.
"Kaguya-sama, it's true that I'm preparing to quit, but you don't need to sulk and then do things like this, right?"
Hayasaka Ai felt her Ojou-sama was joking.
Thinking back to last night, Hayasaka Ai felt a little flustered, even the calm mask she had maintained all this time showed cracks.
"Sulk? Not at all, Devoted Hearts Festival is coming up, we have related things to discuss." Shinomiya Kaguya casually made up an excuse.
'There's still a whole month left, why discuss it so early?' Hayasaka Ai silently refuted inside.
But she also had her own plan. If Shinomiya Kaguya was acting together with Sakurai Saki, on the contrary it would be more convenient for her own execution.
Last night, she had told her mother to come and take the job of temporary bodyguard for Shinomiya Kaguya.
...
"Ai-chan~~ where are we going to hang out today?" Hayasaka Ai's friend, Hinokuchi Mirin, approached.
"Mm~ let me think, how about strolling around the old street?" Ai-chan separated from Shinomiya Kaguya.
Yesterday the two of them had spent the whole day together, but the atmosphere was so awkward it could freeze the space around them, really hard to describe.
"Shinomiya-san isn't coming?"
"She said she had something to do." Hayasaka Ai explained.
"Eh, really." Hinokuchi Mirin looked into the distance and saw Shinomiya Kaguya walking toward Sakurai Saki.
'Netorare?'
She then looked at Hayasaka Ai's face and saw that her expression was unexpectedly calm.
Mirin: ( ˶°ㅁ°) Aha!!
Could it be that Ai-chan was the type of girl with that strange fetish? Mirin had heard before, there were some girls who liked to see their boyfriends being intimate with others, they could find pleasure in it! Too scary!
"Ai-chan, you're not angry?"
"Of course I am."
That answer made Hinokuchi Mirin breathe a sigh of relief.
"But she just explained the reason to me, so it's fine."
'You misunderstood the main point!?' Hinokuchi Mirin screamed inside.
Normally, when a girl sees her boyfriend being close with another, she would go crazy!
Forget it, forget it, if Ai-chan has that strange fetish, then there's no helping it.
Hayasaka Ai looked at the two of them talking, and noticed their actions were still within proper bounds, not too intimate, and the distance was kept at half a meter.
She had no idea that in her friend's mind, she had already turned into a woman with a strange fetish, someone who liked netorase.
(Note: There are 3 types of NTR. One, Netorare, being cuckolded. Two, Netori, cuckolding others. Three, Netorase, enjoying being cuckolded.)
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"What should we do?"
"What do you mean what should we do?"
"Of course, how to follow Hayasaka, are you stupid? Still asking me that." Shinomiya Kaguya gave Sakurai a glance.
"I'll kill you right now~" Sakurai Saki snapped.
"Why are you suddenly threatening me?" Shinomiya Kaguya didn't realize that at this moment, her hostility toward Sakurai Saki had nearly vanished.
Half a year ago, if she had heard such a reply from Sakurai Saki, she definitely would have retorted immediately.
But now, she only felt a little curious.
Sakurai Saki also noticed it: "Kaguya-chan, don't you feel our relationship has gotten much closer?"
Sakurai: ( • ̀ω•́ )✧
Kaguya: (·•᷄ࡇ•᷅ )
Even Sakurai Saki had to admit, the relationship between him and Shinomiya Kaguya was no longer that of enemies, but rather something closer. Mm… if he had to use a word to describe it, "friends" seemed quite accurate.
"Kaguya-chan? Why are you suddenly calling me that?" Shinomiya Kaguya got goosebumps.
She had reminded him many times not to use that way of addressing her.
"Seems like we're still not close enough for you to accept it."
¯\_(- ㅿ -)_/¯
If one day, when she heard that form of address and neither refuted nor resisted, then Sakurai Saki would know that things had nearly gone beyond control.
For now though, it was still fine.
"We've been classmates for a whole year already, if even now we still can't get along (in terms of communication), then I think with such a low level of social skills you can no longer be called human, maybe the word 'insect' would be more accurate." Shinomiya Kaguya propped her right hand against her chin, speaking pensively.
"…I hope you don't become an insect." Sakurai Saki glanced in the direction of Hayasaka Ai, realizing they had already left.
"Insect?" Shinomiya Kaguya thought for a few seconds, then blushed and shouted: "I will never like you!"
(Note: Look at the chapter title, that's the line Kaguya once said to Sakurai before, i think.)
"This kind of tsundere style doesn't fit the current version anymore, Kaguya-san."
Kaguya: (｡· v ·｡) ?
She didn't understand at all.
A few seconds later, she also realized that Hayasaka Ai and the others had disappeared.
"Stop talking, hurry and catch up with them!"
"Didn't you just—"
"Don't babble, we're about to lose them."
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Kyoto old street.
Hayasaka Ai and her two gyaru friends were strolling through the small shops.
"Ai-chan, look at this, isn't it cute?"
Suruga Subaru put a black bow on her hair at her forehead.
"Very cute!" Hayasaka Ai praised.
"You're just saying that perfunctorily~" Suruga Subaru took off the bow, "Normally, when people can't find anything good to compliment, they just throw out a 'cute.' Just like those guys with nothing outstanding about them, everyone only praises them as 'kind.'"
'So troublesome.' Ai-chan sighed inwardly, feeling like she was out on a date with a girlfriend — and the type of girlfriend who was extremely hard to please.
Hayasaka Ai turned her eyes away from the accessory shop, glancing behind her.
Hayasaka: (╭ರ_•́) huh?
A few seconds later, her gaze immediately became serious.
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"We… we've been spotted!" Shinomiya Kaguya wore a hat, a mask, and even sunglasses.
She looked no different from some perverted stalker.
Well, actually what Shinomiya Kaguya and Sakurai Saki were doing right now wasn't much different from what stalkers did anyway.
"Don't worry."
"Sakurai-san, why aren't you in disguise at all?"
"Kaguya-san, with that ridiculous disguise, I think it's better not to disguise at all." Sakurai Saki's face darkened.
In broad daylight, wearing a hat and sunglasses, wasn't that even more eye-catching?
"Why did Hayasaka split off from the group?"
"Toilet break maybe?" Sakurai Saki guessed.
"Sakurai-san, don't use that word." Kaguya reminded, "For girls, you should say 'picking flowers.'"
Sakurai Saki ignored her, "Hurry up, follow them."
Saying that, he immediately quickened his pace forward.
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"Toyosaki, why are we following them?"
Shirogane Miyuki glanced at Shinomiya Kaguya and Sakurai Saki, then turned to ask the person next to him.
"Don't you find it strange? Shinomiya is walking with Sakurai, and what's more, they seem to be tailing someone!" Toyosaki Saburou said seriously.
"Kazamatsuri, didn't you brag about working as a detective before? Give us your opinion."
Kazamatsuri Gou observed ahead for a few seconds, then spoke solemnly:
"There's a possibility Hayasaka is being followed by a suspicious person, so Sakurai appeared, perhaps with the goal of drawing out the mastermind into the open!"
Shirogane Miyuki & Toyosaki Saburou: ∘ ∘ ∘ ( °ヮ° ) ?∘ ∘ ∘ ( °ヮ° ) ?
"Really?" Shirogane Miyuki asked reluctantly.
Kazamatsuri Gou scratched his head and laughed awkwardly:
"I was just guessing~"
"F**K you!" ×2